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Return to ARQ Workshop on Engaging
Assignments Interested in those
Flashlight Online templates for evaluating and improving
your homework assignments and course activities?
In the workshop we introduced two similar forms that can be
easily adapted (as online forms or paper feedback forms) to
gather anonymous student feedback on recent homework
assignments and class activity. The goal: help you learn how
to improve future assignments and activities. This page
includes links to those forms ("B" below) as well as to
workshop materials to help others learn to use them, and
information about using Flashlight Online, a web based
survey system that includes those forms.
"Sharing it Further" means
taking a few minutes to a) deepen what you know, and/yb) tip
off some colleagues about the opportunity.
No
one has time to attend every workshop,
so here's a chance to help out friends who couldn't make it
this one, friends who might appreciate hearing about this
material. Here's a list of things you
might do (or that your friends might do, if they come here).
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Email, blog, post, or tweet
about this page. A short URL for the page
you're looking at now is
http://bit.ly/Eval-Assign.. Draft text
(if you like): "Forms to gather student feedback
useful in creating engaging homework assignments.
http://bit.ly/Eval-Assign"
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If you explain this technique to
someone and they're interested, give them a paper
bookmark with a reminder of how this works, and a URL
linking to these materials and model surveys. <http://bit.ly/homework-bookmark
>
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Here's a link to
workshop materials for a 5-20 minute long workshop on
these templates. Part of a series called "Asking the
Right Questions," the workshop is short enough to be an
agenda item for a departmental meeting or brownbag. And
anyone who has used the templates could lead the
workshop. The materials include links to both
templates, so this is also an easy way to see
what we're talking about.
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Story that
inspired development of these templates: a philosophy
instructor who did a survey of which assignments his
students enjoyed and found useful, his surprising
discovery, and how he used that finding to greatly
improve his course.
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Flashlight Online makes it easy for us
to give you a copy of these templates so that you can
quickly turn out your own forms. No need to recopy all
the questions.
If
you're at a subscriber institution, ask your local
Flashlight Online administrator for an account.
If your institution doesn't subscribe, you can get an
individual TLT Group membership that includes your own
Flashlight Online authoring account.
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